Artillery Duel By Chinese
(Rec. 10 p.m.) TAIPEH. October 3Q. Chinese Nationalist and Communist guns fired more than 200 shells in an artillery duel yesterday between Quemoy Island and the nearby port of Amoy, on the mainland, the official Nationalist Military Information Service reported today. In the Pescadores Islands, off tile south-western .coast of Formosa, Nationalist radar last night spotted an unidentified plane circling the islands. A blackout was imposed, but it was lifted 30 minutes later. Delayed reports reaching Taipeh today said “furious” gun duels broke out on October 23 between the Communists on Toumen Island and Nationalists on Yikiangshan Island, off
the coast of Chekiang province. Yikiangshan is a strategic Nationalist base in the Tachen Islands group, about 150 miles north-west of Formosa.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27495, 1 November 1954, Page 11
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